The Overdrive service enables you to log in and check out and download titles electronically and then read or listen to them on your own device. Books are available as e-books or e-audiobooks. Items check out for two weeks at a time and are returned automatically at the end of the lending period. You are never fined for an overdue e-book, and you can place a hold on any item that is currently in use by another patron; you will be notified when it is available for checkout.

E-book and e-audiobook titles available through the Libby app include bestsellers in both fiction and nonfiction.

Recent magazine issues are available in the Libby app for these 20 titles:
Clean Eating
Country Living
The Economist
Elle Decor
Food Network
Good Housekeeping
HGTV
House Beautiful
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
National Enquirer
The New Yorker
Newsweek
O The Oprah Magazine
OK!
Reader’s Digest
Rolling Stone
Soap Opera Digest
Star
Taste of Home
TV Guide Magazine

Here are some links to help you get started using Overdrive through the Libby app:

Getting started with the Libby app

Get help with e-books

Get help with e-audiobooks

Troubleshooting

If you still need help, call the library at 512-930-3551. We’ll help you download the app and get started reading or listening!

Our library partners with other area libraries through the Central Texas Digital Consortium to offer Overdrive. We fund our Overdrive purchases largely with support from the Friends of the Georgetown Public Library. Thank you to our Friends!

Our library is a participant in E-Read Texas, a program by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission designed to increase the ability of Texas libraries to offer e-books to their patrons. The program utilizes an app developed by the New York Public Library called SimplyE. The SimplyE app is available for mobile devices running iOS and Android. It offers a “three-click” approach to e-books: patrons browse the e-book bookshelf, click to select a title, click again to check it out, and click to open and read it. Items are returned automatically at the end of the lending period. You are never fined for an overdue e-book, and you can place a hold on any item that is currently in use by another patron; you will be notified when it is available for checkout.

Here are some links to SimplyE help:

Getting Started with SimplyE | Troubleshooting

If you need help getting started with the SimplyE app, please download this flyer for instructions. Or call the library at 512-930-3551. We’ll help you download the app and get started reading!